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Challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures to mitigate high uranium density fuel oxidation: uranium silicide

A. Gonzales, Jennifer K. Watkins, Adrian R. Wagner, Brian J. Jaques, Elizabeth S. Sooby

2021Journal of Nuclear Materials23 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Topics & Concepts

UraniumSilicideComposite numberMaterials scienceNuclear fuelCladding (metalworking)CorrosionEnriched uraniumNuclear engineeringChemical engineeringMetallurgyWaste managementComposite materialSiliconEngineeringNuclear Materials and PropertiesNuclear reactor physics and engineeringRadioactive element chemistry and processing